Chris Froome said his crash on Friday’s 19th stage of the Tour de France proved the race is never over until the finish line in Paris is crossed. Froome ended the 146-km Alpine stage on teammate Geraint Thomas’s bike with a ripped jersey, while he went up to the podium after the race with a […]
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Top-seeded Venus Williams reached the Bank of the West Classic semifinals, beating 17-year-old wild-card entry CiCi Bellis 6-4, 6-1 in an all-American match Friday night. The 36-year-old Williams won the last of her 49 singles titles in Taiwan in February. She won the Stanford event in 2000 and 2002. Williams will face Alison Riske on […]
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Sam Allardyce pledged to make England proud of its perennially under-performing national team after being hired as its manager on Friday, following an embarrassing European Championship showing under Roy Hodgson. In a break from previous lengthy deals for managers, the English Football Association only handed Allardyce an initial two-year contract through the 2018 World Cup […]
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Rangers manager Jeff Banister was reasonably happy with what Yu Darvish showed him in his third start since coming off the disabled list from a shoulder ailment. If only Danny Duffy didn’t show off a little bit more. Darvish allowed three runs, two earned, over six sharp innings Friday night, but Duffy trumped him by […]
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Sunderland announced on Saturday that it has hired former Manchester United coach David Moyes as manager, a day after Sam Allardyce left the Premier League club to take charge of England’s national team. Sunderland said in a statement that the 53-year-old Moyes signed a four-year contract with the club, which just avoided relegation last season. […]
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The New York Rangers signed forward Chris Kreider to a four-year contract worth $18.5 million in a last-minute deal that helped the sides avoid arbitration. General manager Jeff Gorton announced the agreement on Friday. Hours later, he also announced the signing of the Rangers’ other major restricted free agent, center Kevin Hayes. Hayes signed a […]
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Oklahoma State basketball player Tyrek Coger died from an enlarged heart after a 40-minute team workout on the football stadium stairs in hot weather, officials said Friday. While the temperature was 37.2 C, it wasn’t known if the weather played a role in Coger’s death. The 22-year-old forward, who had recently transferred to OSU, did […]
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Harumafuji clung to the lead with a gutsy win over a determined opponent on Saturday, the penultimate day of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. Looking to win his eighth grand sumo title, the Mongolian yokozuna faced a severe challenge by ozeki Goeido (7-7), who forced Harumafuji back to the straw on his initial charge and […]
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The IOC on Friday disqualified a silver medal-winning Turkish weightlifter from the 2008 Beijing Olympics for doping with an anabolic steroid. The IOC said Sibel Ozkan, who placed second in the women’s 48-kg class, tested positive for stanozolol in recent re-tests of her urine sample. The 28-year-old Ozkan has been ordered to return her medal […]
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Virat Kohli made history by scoring his maiden test double century as India played its their way into a virtually unbeatable position on the second day of the first test against West Indies on Friday. Captain Kohli became the first Indian to post a test double century overseas, scoring 200 out of 566 for eight […]
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